Correction re “once every 50 years”The year of Jubilee happened once every 50 years. Lev.25:10
At this time slaves were to be set free and land which had been mortgaged had to be returned to the family of origin.
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Dear Gail,
I am most impressed by this thread of yours and the interest you’ve been able to engineer into things pertaining to the Bible! Thanks! And may the Lord of Hosts be praised!
I little detail though that I just discovered in this thread: The year of Jubilee was not intended to occur “once every 50 years” as commonly misunderstood and taught. Though it is true that that year was reckoned as the 50th year, it actually was intended to occur once every 49 years. That is, coinciding with the 7th of seven Sabbatical years within a 49 year cycle.
Though this is still a debacle of great consternation and confusion to most people, the simple explanation is really quite easy to understand and comprehend:
The 49 year cycle was intended to be taught and remembered by means of that patterned and taught by the days and weeks of Omer. That is, the days and weeks within the time span between the sacrifice of Omer, aka the Wave Offering on the morning of the weekly Sabbath within the Feast of Unleavened bread, and the Day of Pentecost. When that first Sabbath within the Feast of Unleavened Bread is reckoned as the first day of 50, then naturally the 50th day would likewise fall upon a weekly Sabbath. So also re the 50th year, when the 1st of fifty years was reckoned as one of the seven Sabbatical years. Now that’s easy, isn’t it?!
What makes it harder to accept for most of us, is nothing but our own erroneous preconceived ideas and assumptions re the timing of the Day of Pentecost. That is, the misconception that the Day of Pentecost is to be celebrated on the 1st day of the week. The change from Sabbath to Sunday re the celebration of the Day of Pentecost is a relatively recent change. I don’t have the particulars yet, but what I have been able to discover is that during New Testament times Jews and Christians alike celebrated the Day of Pentecost on a Sabbath. Likewise for Daniel. The proof is found in the New Testament itself and in Daniel; where else?!
For those of you that are interested in more particulars re this issue, please click
this link to another article of mine on that very subject… As you may recognize, this is yet another instance of the Daniel 7:25 prophecy being fulfilled (cf.
this link!)
Shabbat Shalom,
Tree of Life ©
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